Collaroy
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- Road safety
‘E-bike cowboys’ swarm Sydney northern beaches golf club
Mass rideouts of young riders on e-bikes have taken over public roads and golf courses as the government grapples with how to respond.
- Jack Gramenz
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The Northern Beaches councillor who’s racked up $31,866 in expenses
Councillors spent more than $200,000 on expenses and $150,000 sending staff to conferences even as ratepayers faced big hikes in rates.
- Cindy Yin and Max Maddison
The Sydney suburbs where rents soared most over the past year
Rents in most Sydney suburbs are higher this year than last, but some landlords have been raising prices faster than the rest.
- Alice Uribe
Deafening cacophony when it’s the Big Day Out in your backyard
You know it’s bad when you opt for a Motorhead rock concert to get a bit of shoosh from the summer wildlife.
- Wendy Harmer
The Sydney suburbs where rents jumped up to 30 per cent in a year
Houses and units from the northern beaches to the inner west, west and south-west recorded a double-digit surge in the year to September.
- Kristy Johnson
Collaroy house sells for $2.33 million, last sold for $260,000 in the 1990s
A young couple, who had considered the Northern Beaches for the first time, outbid five other registered buyers on the home, a stone’s throw away from the beach.
- Tawar Razaghi
‘Unusual’ winter swells erode Sydney beaches and sand dunes
Beaches recover relatively rapidly from coastal erosion, but sand dunes can take years to repair.
- Caitlin Fitzsimmons
‘It has everything you need’: What it costs to live in the Sydney suburbs with the highest wellbeing
A suburb’s wellbeing was measured on several indicators such as health, environment, jobs and income – but it comes at a price.
- Elizabeth Redman and Tawar Razaghi
- Opinion
- Climate crisis
Seawalls? We should fight them, and not just on the northern beaches
We have our heads buried in the proverbial sand when it comes to coastal erosion. The time to think about the fate of our beloved beaches is now.
- Wendy Harmer
How La Nina shrinks Sydney’s beaches...and they recover
Scientists have found beaches along Australia’s south-east coast slim down by up to 20 per cent during La Nina climate cycles, and beef up again during El Nino events.
- Ben Cubby